All is Calm — The Christmas Truce of 1914<\/em> and will be our second event of the series on Sunday, December 16, at 3 p.m.\u00a0Many of you are aware of the story of when during World War I, Allied and German soldiers put down their guns and began singing Christmas carols across enemy lines.\u00a0This stage musical is a re-creation of that inspiring time when music and love brought enemies together on that magical Christmas Eve night in 1914.\u00a0You will be transported to those enemy lines when a German soldier bravely stepped into No Man\u2019s Land singing \u201cStille Nacht\u201d and enemies became brothers on the battle field.<\/p>\nI can\u2019t tell you how fortunate we are to have The King\u2019s Singers as our third concert of the series on Saturday, February 16, 2019.\u00a0I heard them in Fort Wayne a year and a half ago and have been talking with them ever since.\u00a0I was blown away with their musicality and smooth blend and intricate harmonies.<\/p>\n
Some of you remember them from years gone by.\u00a0They actually got their start in 1968 as six recently graduated choral scholars from King\u2019s College in Cambridge, England.\u00a0The group became a weekly fixture on prime-time television singing popular music never usually touched by choirs.\u00a0They have sung on most of the world\u2019s greatest stages, from London\u2019s Royal Prince Albert Hall to the Opera House in Sydney (that\u2019s Australia, not Ohio), and, of course, New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall.\u00a0And now you get to hear them in Van Wert at the Niswonger!<\/p>\n
We finish the Enrich Community Concert Series with perhaps the hottest performers we have ever had.\u00a0The Texas Tenors will be returning with an all new show, \u201cLet Freedom Sing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Some fortunate high school singers in the area will be featured on stage with these three tenors and their band to provide a huge finale to this show.\u00a0We sold out two shows last year and just knew we needed to bring them back to Van Wert again (and again).\u00a0So back by popular demand will be the Texas Tenors in \u201cLet Freedom Sing\u201d to finish off another spectacular Enrich Community Concert Series.<\/p>\n
Since 1953, Community Concerts have been in Van Wert County and I am so pleased to continue this tradition in this cool and up-to-date series that still preserves the best qualities we have loved for many years at one affordable price.\u00a0We have worked diligently to put this together much earlier than in the past because of when our last concert of the current series fell.\u00a0This past Sunday was our last of the current series.\u00a0\u00a0I thank my staff and committee members in helping get this ready to launch.<\/p>\n
I hope you are as excited with this series as we are.\u00a0Watch the mail for your mailer or check on-line for more details.\u00a0In the meantime, we still have five or six great concerts and events for you to enjoy yet this season.<\/p>\n
Remember, \u201cOhio Has Talent!\u201d is this Saturday night.\u00a0Just a few tickets remain. You can purchase them at the Niswonger Box Office and the money goes to a tremendous cause in Community Health Professionals.<\/p>\n
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The Niswonger Performing Arts Center just announced the new 2018-19 Enrich Community Concert Series this past weekend.\u00a0It went on sale this past Tuesday to members, starting with the top level Maestro members. Next week, sales will open to Principal members and the following week to Musician members.\u00a0General sales for the series package will begin March […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 13:42:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}